RANKED: The 100 Best Universities In The World; CWUR Rankings 2017

It’s no surprise that Harvard University has been ranked as the top university in the world for the sixth year in a row, according to the 2017 list ranking by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), followed by Stanford and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The University of Cambridge in the U.K. placed 4th and the University of Oxford followed in 5th place on the list of the top 1,000 universities in the world.

The 2017 rankings placed Columbia University in 6th ahead of University of California (Berkeley) into 7th; while University of Chicago ranked 8th, and Princeton University 9th.

Overall, among the top 15 universities, the 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th, and 15th positions are held by the Yale, California Institute of Technology, Cornell, the University of Tokyo, University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California (Los Angeles)

There has been no change in the ranking of the top 15 universities, with only 2 new universities entering into the top 20 – Northwestern University (17th, up from 21st) and New York University (19th, up from 22nd).

Johns Hopkins University came in 16th place, followed by Northwestern University (17th), University of California, San Diego (18th), and New York University, ranked 19th. Out of 100 top universities in the world, University of California (San Francisco) ranked No. 20th.

These are the top 100 universities in the world:

Rank

University

Country

1

Harvard University

US

2

Stanford University

US

3

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

US

4

University of Cambridge

UK

5

University of Oxford

UK

6

Columbia University

US

7

University of California, Berkeley

US

8

University of Chicago

US

9

Princeton University

US

10

Yale University

US

11

California Institute of Technology

US

12

Cornell University

US

13

University of Tokyo

Japan

14

University of Pennsylvania

US

15

University of California, Los Angeles

US

16

Johns Hopkins University

US

17

Northwestern University

US

18

University of California, San Diego

US

19

New York University

US

20

University of California, San Francisco

US

21

Kyoto University

Japan

22

University of Michigan

US

23

Seoul National University

South Korea

24

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich

Switzerland

25

University of Washington

US

26

University of Washington

US

27

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Israel

28

University of Toronto

Canada

29

Duke University

US

30

University of Texas at Austin

US

31

University College London

UK

32

Keio University

Japan

33

Rockefeller University

US

34

Imperial College London

UK

35

Ecole Polytechnique

France

36

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

US

37

Waseda University

Japan

38

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

US

39

Weizmann Institute of Science

Israel

40

University of Virginia

US

41

McGill University

Canada

42

École normale supérieure - ENS Paris

France

43

University of Pittsburgh

US

44

University of Edinburgh

UK

45

University of Southern California

US

46

University of Minnesota

US

47

Dartmouth College

US

48

Ohio State University

US

49

Rutgers University

US

50

Osaka University

Japan

51

University of California, Davis

US

52

National Taiwan University

Taiwan

53

Washington University in St. Louis

US

54

Peking University

China

55

University of British Columbia

Canada

56

Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University

France

57

Boston University

US

58

Pennsylvania State University

US

59

University of Florida

US

60

University of Copenhagen

Denmark

61

National University of Singapore

Singapore

62

University of Manchester

UK

63

Vanderbilt University

US

64

Purdue University

US

65

Tsinghua University

China

66

University of California, Santa Barbara

US

67

Carnegie Mellon University

US

68

University of Utah

US

69

University of Colorado Boulder

US

70

University of Paris-Sud

France

71

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Germany

72

Karolinska Institute

Sweden

73

University of Rochester

US

74

University of Sydney

Australia

75

University of Arizona

US

76

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

US

77

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Belgium

78

King's College London

UK

79

Emory University

US

80

University of Maryland, College Park

US

81

Brown University

US

82

University of Melbourne

Australia

83

Utrecht University

Netherlands

84

Sapienza University of Rome

Italy

85

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Netherlands

86

Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg

Germany

87

Tel Aviv University

Israel

88

Tohoku University

Japan

89

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne

Switzerland

90

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

US

91

University of Zurich

Switzerland

92

University of Geneva

Switzerland

93

University of Notre Dame

US

94

University of Queensland

Australia

95

Georgia Institute of Technology

US

96

University of California, Irvine

US

97

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Russia

98

Tufts University

US

99

University of Oslo

Norway

100

Ghent University

Belgium

US universities dominate global rankings, claiming the top 3 spots and eight of the top ten.

The US dominated the rankings with 54 institutions in the top 100, followed by U.K. 7 institutions, and Japan 6 universities.

Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj is the CEO and editorial director at CEOWORLD magazine, the leading global business magazine written strictly for CEOs, CFOs, top managers, company directors, investors, senior executives, business leaders, high net worth individuals, and the most globally powerful men and women.